Essence Quotes

1898 Essence quotes by 1317 unique authors

The real essence of work is concentrated energy. — Walter Bagehot
Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise… — Hans Arp
The essence of a sculpture must enter on tip-toe, as light as animal footprints on snow. — Hans Arp
Color is the essence of painting, which the subject always killed. — Kazimir Malevich
What I most cherish is the observation of the movement of colors. Only in this have I found the laws of those simultaneous and complementary… — August Macke
The characteristic property of hallucinogens, to suspend the boundaries between the experiencing self and the outer world in an ecstatic, emotional experience, makes it posible… — Albert Hofmann
The state is a force incarnate. Worse, it is the silly parading of force. It never seeks to prevail by persuasion. Whenever it thrusts its… — Mikhail Bakunin
For the essence of science, I would suggest, is simply the refusal to believe on the basis of hope. — Unknown Author
...the source of all great mathematics is the special case, the concrete example. It is frequent in mathematics that every instance of a concept of… — Paul Halmos
The essence of Christianity, as I see it, is love. The essence of Humanism (and I'm also a Humanist) is love. At that level, we're… — Mark Thomas
Union and Communion: this is the essence of Christianity. — Heidi Baker
Summer cooking implies a sense of immediacy, a capacity to capture the essence of the fleeting moment. — Elizabeth David
If asked how to cope with a great host of the enemy in orderly array and on the point of marching to the attack, I… — Sun Tzu
.. since it was true that study, even when done properly, can only teach us what wisdom, right conduct and determination consist in, they wanted… — Michel de Montaigne
Remember, the essence of storytelling demands that we place our main characters on a path. A quest with something at stake, with something to do,… — Larry Brooks
All thought is immoral. Its very essence is destruction. If you think of anything, you kill it. Nothing survives being thought of. — Oscar Wilde
You have to deeply understand the essence of a product in order to be able to get rid of the parts that are not essential. — Jonathan Ive
I would welcome the passing of the idea of philosophy as defined by a method of conceptual analysis. But that is not the passing of… — Robert Adams
Spirit is the essence of consciousness, the energy of the universe that creates all things. Each one of us is a part of that spirit… — Shakti Gawain
The student should bear in mind that the very essence of consciousness is constantly to identify itself with the Not-Self, and as constantly to re-assert… — Arthur E. Powell
The challenge of warriorship is to live fully in the world as it is and to find within this world, with all its paradoxes, the… — Chogyam Trungpa
To penetrate into the essence of all being and significance, and to release the fragrance of that inner attainment for the guidance of others, by… — Meher Baba
Everything you see has its roots in the unseen world. The forms may change, yet the essence remains the same. Every wonderful sight will vanish,… — Unknown Author
The shell must be cracked apart if what is in it is to come out, for if you want the kernel you must break the… — Meister Eckhart
Though someday we may become as eloquent as Sahban, but we might also miss the essence of the Forgiving One. — Saadi

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